Neo-Communism and the Fall of the West
Months before hostilities started in Ukraine, the liberal press was warning us indirectly about the intentions of the Democrats, thus revealing to the world what was about to happen.
Category: Access
Human, Not-Quite Human
In seeking power from steroids and microchips, we become their slaves, and in losing our freedom we lose at least a part of our humanity.
Revenge of the Book Club
Some time ago, I abandoned the regular discussion of selected books. The reason should have been obvious. The cause has disappeared, and we can resume. Working on the second volume of Properties of Blood, I need to rewrite the chapters on revenge. This is a good occasion for looking at the classic work of the English stage, The Avenger’s Tragedy….
Poem by Thomas Chatterton
Chatterton, a late 18th century poet, is more famous as a legend–the teenage poet who died at 17–than as a writer. The Romantics, French as well as English, lionized him. His best known poems are the medievalizing verses he attributed to a 15th century poet, but his talent for painting satiric portraits is evident in “Apostate Will”–a fine sketch of the clergy on the make,
Uncritical Racism and the Queen
Many otherwise good people are upset with the remarks made by a tech school prof who said she hoped Queen Elizabeth died a slow and painful death. Evil, stupid, ignorant are some of the epithets I have heard applied to the prof in question, but would anyone not evil, stupid, and ignorant be interested in teaching uncritical racism, an ideology designed to stir up hatred and violence among all racial groups. And, what kind of a school, once famous for engineering, would inflict such a course on would be engineers and architects? Obviously, not a school anyone in his right...
Podcast: The Reign of Love, Chapter One: Exiled Children of Eve
Mankind has got to know its limitations, but from the Tower of Babel to Soviet Union to Woke America, too many men have attempted to build a heaven on earth that turns out to resemble Hell.
Wednesday’s Child: Many Mansions
Another fascinating thing about watching a child grow is the gestation of his powers of attention. I do not say “evolution,” though attention is a kind of faculty which is by nature progressive, because I find both evolution and progress conceptually suspect.
Taxes and Tyranny
Nonetheless…if there is one thing we Americans take seriously, it is money But even on that most vital subject, we cannot bring ourselves to tell the truth.
Poetry by Arthur Clough
As I sat at the café, I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
Homeless, Homeless
Ghettos are made by people of heavily criminalized low cultures destroying their environment, which in turn raises more criminals.
Ghettos are made by people of heavily criminalized low cultures destroying their environment, which in turn raises more criminals.
